ITT: Historical Pottery

>Medieval period begins with the fall of the Western Roman Empire
>Medieval period ends with the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire

>first King of Rome is called Romulus
>first Emperor of Rome is called Augustus
>last Emperor of (western) Rome is called Romulus Augustulus

>first Roman Emperor to reign in Constantinople called Constantine
>last Roman Emperor to reign in Constantinople called Constantine

also
>fall-of-rome.jpg
reeeeeeeeee that's not a painting of Rome you spiv

really makes you think

also
>The myth of the samurai was being created when the myth of the knights was being parodied

THAT ISNT A PAINTING OF ROME

really stimulates the intuition

It's almost like periodisations are the product of scholarly debate and are set down by people.

Not to be "no fun allowed" or anything.

pic related is pottery

>A Germanic Christian tribe called the wanderers move peacefully into Carthage and built bathhouses so wonderful they wrote poetry about it
>Because they were the wrong kind of Christians the Romans wrote so much slander the name of their tribe is now the root for the world Vandalism.

>Titanic
>Is called "The Unsinkable Ship"
>Sinks on its first voyage

>people called the turks
>they turk constantinople away from the greco-romans

you can't make this shit up

dindu nuffin

really it kinda was an inside job

see fourth crusade

>First crusade helps Byzantines save themselves
>Last crusade helps Byzantines get destroyed

there's probably a karmic element since they were the ones who encouraged Germanic murderhobos in the first place

>rebuild Carthage
>wonder that Rome talks shit about them
who would have guessed

>First imperial dynasty of China is Qin.
>The last one is Qing

Well it takes a long time for the Chinese to hit the G-spot, amirite?

kek

Rome is the China of Europe. China is the Rome of East Asia.

>200's BC
-Roman Republic rises in ascendancy
-China as an empire, founded
>Late 200's BC and 100's AD
-Rome fights and defeats worst enemy: Carthage
-Han China fights and defeats worst enemy: Xiongnu Empire
>0-100's AD
-Roman Imperial Golden Ages
-Han Golden Age in China
>200' AD
-Crisis of the Third Century in Rome. Rome divided into shitty Imperial factions fighting each other
-Collapse of the Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms Period in China
>300's AD
-Rome manages to regain stability under , good Emperors, tetrarchy, Christianity.
-China manages to regain stability under Sima Jin Dynasty.
>400's-500's AD
-The Shittening, Western Roman Empire falls. Romaness moves to the Eastern Empire..
-The Shittening, The Sima Jin dynasty falls to infighting and then invading Nomadics conquer North. Chineseness retreats to Southern China.
>600's-800's
-The Byzantine Empire's golden ages.
-Reunification under Sui. China's golden ages under the T'ang Dynasty.
>900's AD.
-Turkic Invasions lead to huge territorial losses for Byzantines. Internal problems at home and in the Balkans.
-Fall of T'ang in China, generals fall into infighting as a century sees 5 dynasties and 10 Kingdoms in quick succession
>1000's-1100's
-The Byzantine Renaissance. Much stability and sciences
-The Song Renaissance Period of Chinese history. Also much stability and sciences
>Mid 1200's
-Byzantine in Crisis from Invading Crusaders, Muslims.
-China in Crisis from Invading Jurchens & Mongols.

>-The Byzantine Empire's golden ages.
>What was Iconoclasm controversy

>"War to End All Wars"
>Is only the first one

heretics gonna heretic

>What was Iconoclasm controversy

A mere internal distraction.